Glasgow International Festival Of Visual Art.

16.04.10 – 03.05.10

Glasgow’s museums, galleries, streets, bridges and hidden spaces will showcase the work of national and international artists when Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art returns in April 2010, building on the critical and popular success of the Festival in 2008.

An epic and immersive installation in the enormous interior of Tramway, a soundwork resonating from the banks of the River Clyde, an assortment of surreal objects inserted within the collection of one of Europe’s most important museums, drawings and sculptures from one of contemporary culture’s most influential artists, and bicycles take to the city’s streets for Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art’s fourth edition.

Under the artistic direction of Katrina Brown and inspired by the relationships between past, present and future, over 50 artists are presenting sculpture, drawings, film, video, soundworks, performance and music in venues and locations, ranging from the renowned Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, the Hunterian Art Gallery, the Gallery of Modern Art, the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) and Tramway to diverse artist-run collectives, small galleries, temporary sites and the hidden and outdoor spaces of the city.

Glasgow-based artists remain at the forefront of the Festival with David Shrigley creating a collection of intriguing sculptures and objects for museum cases at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum; Glasgow-born Susan Philipsz realises her first outdoor sound work on home ground along the banks of the River Clyde, and Douglas Gordon opens the Festival with a new video installation citing his own landmark work 24 Hour Psycho, first shown at Tramway in 1993. Renowned environmental arts organisation NVA re-enact the infamous White Bike Plan, a Dutch anarchist eco-action of the 1960s, by releasing fifty white bikes onto the streets of Glasgow, whilst Kate Davis and Faith Wilding collaborate on an exhibition exploring feminist legacies in contemporary art at CCA.

A number of international artists sit at the heart of the programme ;-

*Drawings from the ARTISTS ROOMS collection by Joseph Beuys who had strong links to Scotland and whose work provides a powerful context to much of the work showing in the Festival.

*Renowned Swiss artist Christoph Büchel, known for his massive-scale hyper real experiential works takes on the imposing space at Tramway with a dramatic new commission.

*David Maljkovic (Croatia) – one of the most exciting artists to emerge from Europe in recent years – has his first solo show in the UK – video and collage works in a specially designed sculptural installation in a new space in the Merchant City.

*Gerard Byrne, who represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale 2007 presents a major new film work; and internationally acclaimed artist Fiona Tan shows her mesmerising film installation Tomorrow at the Gallery of Modern Art.

*Punk artist-designer and radical feminist Linder exhibits her montage images at Sorcha Dallas gallery and presents a unique performance in collaboration with fashion designer Richard Nicoll and musician Stuart McCallum.

In addition other galleries, venues and artists’ collectives such as Transmission Gallery Lowsalt, market Gallery, The Modern Institute, Mary Mary , FINN collective, Glasgow Sculpture Studios and SWG3 create new works in found spaces, existing venues and on the streets of the city. Washington Garcia presents the work of Australian artist David Noonan at the Mitchell Library, while Glasgow Sculpture Studios is working with Jimmie Durham.

Further details of these exhibitions and others are still to be announced and we will keep you updated as often as possible.

The Festival’s exhibitions programme is complemented by a lively programme of talks, screenings, seminars, performances and other events.

www.glasgowinternational.org

ESW MICRO RESIDENCIES 2010: Call for proposals

Closing date for applications: Friday 5 March 2010

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop’s Micro Residency programme was created to give artists time and space to develop their research and practice in an unpressurised environment which encourages experimentation.

The flexible nature of the programme allows participating artists to explore new ideas and processes outwith their normal practice; benefiting from Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop’s facilities, staff support, and encourages networking / peer critiques between themselves and Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop’s artists.

The Micro Residencies promote interdisciplinary practice and include events that enable the public to meet and talk with artists. The Artists’ Collective, FOUND’s work, Cybraphon, subsequently won a Scottish BAFTA in 2009.

“FOUND used the ESW micro-residency to develop and prototype ideas that would eventually become Cybraphon.  It was ideal for trial and error work as ESW put no pressure on us to create a ‘finished’ article as such. It also gave FOUND our first studio proper and led to us taking up another studio space for a year with ESW.” Ziggy Campbell, FOUND

Each Micro Residency lasts one month. Selected artists will be given one of the ESW studios and access ESW’s workshop equipment free of charge. A fee of £150 is awarded to successful applicants for production costs, and ESW will organise and promote a public event at the end of the residency.­

ESW are currently inviting applications for the months of April, September, October and November 2010. On the application form, please indicate which month(s) you wish to be considered for.

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop,

25 Hawthornvale, Edinburgh EH6 4JT

Tel: 0131 551 4490

2010 micro residency application form

Knife ‘n’ Fork Job

Knife and Fork

Peter Amoore

Natalie Wilson

Heather Dimarco

James Currie

Emma O’Sullivan

Graeme Clark

Six graduates from FineArtETC…. courses (5 from the HND)  exhibited new works recently in a self initiated exhibition ‘Knife and Fork ‘. The exibition which took over the site of the former Edinburgh Copy Shop in the capitals historic Cowgate featured the wok  of 15 artists in total, all of whom are current students of the Intermedia course at Edinburgh College of Art.

In recent years significant numbers of Fine/ContemporaryArtETC… graduates have progressed directly on to Sculpture, Painting and particularly Intermedia Degree course at ECA.

BA(hons) Fine Art Degree, Articulation Agreement Signed.

ContemporaryArtETC is delighted to announce the signing of an Articulation Agreement between the Fine Art team of Edinburgh’s Telford College and the University of Cumbria allowing candidates from Edinburgh’s Telford College to gain an Honours Degree with only 2 years additional study*.

The agreement guarantees** successful HND Contemporary Art Practice students from Edinburgh’s Telford College direct entry to Level 5 (SCQF Level 9 equivalent) of the University’s BA (Hons) Fine Art Course.

This is the first and currently the only agreement of its kind between the new Contemporary Art Practice HND qualification and BA (Hons) Fine Art degree course and is clear recognition of the quality of candidates graduating from the innovative course at Edinburgh’s Telford College.

*subject to successful completion of BA (Hons) course at University of Cumbria

**The agreement is subject to review in July 2010. Pending a successful review candidates successfully completing the HND in 2011 and 2012 will be guaranteed a place on the BA (Hons) Fine Art at University of Cumbria.

http://www.cumbria.ac.uk/Courses/Coursesbylevel/Undergraduate/Arts/ArtDesign/FineArt.aspx

Visiting Artist: Keith Farquhar

Visiting Artist Keith Farquhar at ContemporaryArtETC

Visiting Artist Keith Farquhar at ContemporaryArtETC

Orange and Blue Keith Farquhar; Dynamic, 2009, Photographic cardboard cutout on flat-pack cardboard plinth

ContemporaryArtETC… would like to thank our latest Visiting Artist, Keith Farquhar, who to give an excellent talk to both year groups on his current body of work “Nudes in Colour”. The talk was very engaging and the studios have been buzzing with discussion about the work and Keith’s up coming show at Hyperground in Edinburgh.

Keith graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 1993, and completed his MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths in 1996. As well as taking part in numerous group shows over the years, he has also had several solo exhibitions of his work in Edinburgh, London, Berlin, New York, Cologne and Milan. Recent solo exhibitions include: In Domestos Chaos, Crescent Artspace, Woodend, Scarborough (2008); Matisse and Keith Haring Remade by Keith Farquhar, the Embassy, Edinburgh (2007); Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London (2007); Atomised, Nyehaus, New York (2005) and New work, with Mark Leckey, Inverleith House, Edinburgh (2005).

‘Nudes in Colour’ opens at Hyperground (3/1 Bruntsfield Crescent) Friday the 4th of December 7-9pm is then open on the 5th and 6th of December 12-6pm.

FREE FILM SCREENING: Tomorrow @ Stills Gallery

FREE  Film Screening: Counter Images. GDR Underground Films 1983-1989
Thursday, 12 November 2009  6.30PM

For this special screening curator and filmmaker Claus Löser will present a selection of films which were made in the GDR between 1983 and 1989 by young artists, musicians and writers. At a time when art was subject to state control artists operated outside all official channels, their subversive actions watched closely by the Stasi state security police. As in the West, the GDR had a thriving Super 8 movement which developed out of the D.I.Y. credo of punk and was able to blossom in the small pockets of independent underground culture, providing new forms of expression amid the rigidity of the political climate. Today, many artists of this GDR Super-8 underground scene – including Helge Leiberg, Via Lewandowsky, and Cornelia Schleime – have become well-known figures in the international art world.

A 70 minute programme comprising seven films.

Presented in association with Goethe-Institut Glasgow
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Art Attacks on BBC Radio 4

New BBC 4 radio programme  called ‘art attacks’  covering the destructive nature of art – it was pretty interesting and informative all round, but particularly great for Robert Rauschenberg’s account of meeting Willem De Kooning. 

Series investigating the history of attacks on art works, from the earliest times to the present day.

When does destruction become an act of creation? Lawrence Pollard explores what lies behind some of the more bizarre assaults on contemporary art, including an exploding shed, an artist who destroyed every one of his possessions and art that has been both urinated on and whacked with a hammer.

Sourse BBC Website:

Listen to the Programme now on the BBC Iplayer:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nk2xr

Only available until Monday 9th Nov

Warehouse of Horrors

ContemporaryArtETC… attended the opening of the Warehouse of Horrors at the ++44 141 Gallery in Glasgow on Saturday night and encountered a number of familiar and in some cases rather spooky faces.

The exhibition, curated by ex Telford Fine Art student and ContemporayArtETC… visiting lecturer Benjamin Fallon, brings together a range of artists who share a common interest in horror. Newly commissioned works by  Chris Walker, Catherine Street and our very own Alan Holligan sit confidently in the company of international art stars such as Mike Kelly, Paul McCarthy and Olaf Breuning.

‘Warehouse of Horrors’ is one half of an innovative exchange project between the Embassy Gallery in Edinburgh and +44 141 Gallery, which sees the Glasgow based gallery bring ‘Way Out is The Way Out’ featuring seven artists, predominantly painters, curated by Jamie Kenyon.

Warehouse of Horrors @ ++44 141 Gallery, Glasgow.

Features:

Marc Bijl, Beagles and Ramsay, Olaf Breuning, Neil Clements, Alexander Hetherington, Alan Holligan, Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy, Lyndsay Mann, Jon Owen, Emma Pratt, Aida Ruilova, Catherine Street, Chris Walker

A publication featuring images of the artists work and newly commissioned essay’s by John Beagles, Neil Clements and Norman James Hogg accompanies the Exhibition.

Wednesday – Sunday 12:00 – 18:00

until 15^th November

Way Out is The Way Out @ the Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh.

Features:

Alan Stanners, Benny Merris, Christian Newby, Dan Miller, Ragnar Jonasson, Sandy Smith, Sophie Mackfall

Thursday – Sunday 12:00 – 18:00

until 15^th November

DIALOGUES 2010: Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop Call for Artists

2010 Dialogues

Call for artists

Deadline for completed applications:  Friday 27 November 2009

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop invites applications from artists for the 2010 exhibition, Dialogues, at Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh.

1 to 21 April 2010 at Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh

The aim of the Dialogues programme is to support the production and presentation of new work, broadening the perception and understanding of contemporary sculpture practice. Through the juxtaposition of conflicting or complementary artworks, a catalyst is created to spark unexpected, innovative or new developments between the artists.

A fee of £400 is available per artist, and ESW staff will provide support and practical assistance throughout.

The Artistic Programme Committee (APC) selects the artists and is made up of artist members of ESW elected by ESW’s membership. The APC comprises: Ailsa Lochhead, Ian Scott, Duncan Robertson and Derek Sutherland, and is chaired by ESW Assistant Director, Gordon Munro.

For full information and an application form, please e-mail admin@edinburghsculpture.org or phone 0131 551 4490

www.edinburghsculpture.org

ContemporaryArtETC… Graduates to Curate New Gallery Space.

ContemporaryArtETC… Graduates Peter Amoore & Jade Noble are seeking submissions for the soon to be launced A5 Gallery.

This innovatuive 2-D gallery space is to be launched later this month within the pages of the  re-launched Edinburgh College of Art student magazine the Wee Red Herring.

The Gallery will show contemporary artwork within the specifics of a one sided, A5, page within the college magazine which has a print run of 600 copies.

The artwork will be printed in black and white.  It is a visual gallery space directly showing work produced specially for the magazine context.

The artist or artist’s may use this space however they intend – the gallery space is as flexible as you make it. Submissions should be sent as word documents or jpeg images with instructions if necessary.

Please send artwork, proposals and questions with the subject as (A5 gallery) to weeredherring@gmail.com

The deadline for submissions is Thursday 15th October.

From Jade Noble and Peter Amoore, curators of the A5 gallery.

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop has a vacancy for a Part-Time Technician.

VACANCY:

Technician (Part-Time – 3 days) – Salary £15,500 pro rata

Closing date for applications – 5pm Friday 23rd October 2009.

The Technician will support the coordination of our public and arts programmes and… the day to day management of the building. Candidates will be expected to have a practical knowledge of a variety of sculptural processes and an understanding of contemporary visual arts practice.

For a job description and further information please contact:

Irene Kernan: irene@edinburghsculpture.org

or by telephone – 0131 551 4490.

To apply for the position please post or email your CV along with a covering letter and the names and contact details of two referees to:

Irene Kernan
Director
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
25 Hawthornvale
Edinburgh
EH6 4JT

www.edinburghsculpture.org

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop is an equal opportunities employer.

CUT/PASTE at the Embassy Gallery supported by ContemporatArtETC…

CUT/PASTE

ContemporaryArtETC are delighted to be supporting CUT/PASTE a show of recent graduates at the Embassy Gallery in Edinburgh.

The exhibition which is centered around the theme of collage and assemblage was conceived and selected by ContemporatArtETC course leader Alan Holligan after his voyage around the degree shows for Art World magazine.

In the most important times in our existence we try to make sense of our place and time by cutting up the past and re-ordering the future.

At the turn of the 20th century collage and assemblage came to the fore as a legitimate means of visual and cultural expression. The lineage of this act of creative destruction can be traced to the invention of paper in China in 200BC but it was the rise of Modernism that necessitated a technique, which took the pre-existing: the already, and tore, cut and slashed it before it was re-proposed giving rise to new understanding and meaning.

The artists who feature in CUT/PASTE have graduated during the most turbulent and uncertain of times. Nearly a full century since Picasso and Braque re-defined collage by taking the subject of the café and colliding it with the surface of the painting they are acutely aware of the contextual past & present and do not shy away or hide from it.

Alan Holligan 2009

CUT / PASTE

Embassy graduates show 2009

19th September – 11th October

Thurs – Sun 12-6pm

Katherine Gallacher, Johnathan Long, Travis Souza, Diane Edwards, Thomas Nolan, Omar Z. Bhatia, Mikhak Mirmahmoudi

Selected by Alan Holligan

Come to ART LATE – The CITY WIDE end of Festival Party

Edinburgh Art Festival would like to invite you to Art Late, our city-wide end of Festival party. It’s the ultimate opportunity to celebrate Edinburgh’s incredible visual arts scene, and it won’t cost you a bean.

The night begins at 6pm at the Ingleby Gallery with a collaborative performance from musician Wounded Knee and dancer Ianthe Wright. Later, two contrasting tours will set out from the gallery leading people round the Festival offering different experiences of the exhibitions: The Giving Tour and the Blank Canvas Bike Tour.

The ‘Spin Tour’ will set out from Talbot Rice Gallery at 6pm and is a personal introduction to exhibitions open as part of ART LATE. There’s also a live reading by Phil Kay, printmaking demonstration, artists’ performances and an exploration of the underbelly of Edinburgh’s infamous historical episodes.

If you are feeling independent, and would rather follow your own muse, there are 18 galleries open that evening for you to explore at your leisure.

ART LATE culminates at 9.30pm with Smoke – a collaborative work by local artists to create a night of music, performance and nicotine at niteclub Electric Circus on Market Street.

It’s going to be great. You can find out all about it here:

http://www.edinburghartfestival.com/09-festival-programme/events/art-late/

Book your place and download your e-ticket. The ticket gets you entry to all Art Late venues, and without it you can’t come in!

We hope you get the chance to join us for one final night of festival fun to draw to a close the 2009 Edinburgh Art Festival.

Occupied: ContemporaryArtETC… students hold festival exhibition.

“Occupied” is an exhibition featuring  work by 3 of ContemporaryArtETC’s current students. The exhibition will feature new and recent work produced during their first year on the ground breaking course at Edinburgh’s Telford College.

The work covers a range of themes including;  journey, protection and the notion of celebrity. Alongside these will be new works by the artists inspired by the current economic climate and associated difficulties of occupation, appropriation and negotiation.

Alan Holligan Curriculum Leader for the Contemporay Art Practice Course at Telford said “I am delighted that the students have shown such initiative and determination to get their work and ideas out in the public domain during their summer break. It takes a great deal of confidence and organisational skill to pull of an entirely self initiated project like this and it is testiment to the callibre of student and to their learnig over the last year.”

The art works will occupy the un-let retail space for 1 week between 18^th-22^nd of August at the height of the Edinburgh Festival season. The work will cover a broad range of disciplines including, drawing, painting, sculpture and film.

A private view of the work will be held on Monday the 17th August 7pm – 9pm.

Exhibitors:

Gordon Douglas
Lauren McLaughlin
Carrie Gooch

Location: 9 Gillespie Place in Bruntsfield MAP

Times: Tues – Sat  10am and 6pm

F.E.A.R: An exhibition by FineArtETC….’s Neil Manning

Fear   • verb 1 be afraid of. 2 (fear for) be anxious about. 3 archaic regard (God) with reverence and awe.

F.E.A.R. is an exhibition of prints by Neil Manning Acting Curriculum Manager of Fine Art at Edinburgh’s Telford College. This is an exhibition of 4 large scale limited edition screen prints, incorporating figurative symbolism, text and appropriated imagery and artefacts. The artworks are a personal response to recent and current personal, local, european and global events that disturbingly, on reflection, are too often more real than false.

Neil has exhibited work in gallery based shows including the R.S.A, S.S.A, Richard Demarco Gallery, 369 Gallery and Tron Theatre, since graduating in 1987 from Edinburgh College of Art. He was short listed for the McGrigor Donald Sculpture prize in 1990 exhibiting in the Kelvingrove Museum and Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh and London. The exhibitions have won critical acclaim and shocked a vocal minority with powerfully executed figurative imagery which challenge our perceptions of and highlight real and current events.

http://neil-manning.com/

http://www.facebook.com/inbox/?ref=mb#/event.php?eid=110307787397

Exhibition runs till the 31st August @ The Village, South Fort Street, Edinburgh.

Contact the Artist:

e-mail:  neil.manning@ed-coll.ac.uk

mobile:  07862168680

Art World 2009 Degree Show Report

The Art World 2009 UK Degree Show round up is available now in the August / September international edition of the magazine. This years round up features 20 graduates from accross the UK including 7 artists selected from Aberdeen, Cumbria, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow & Newcastle by our very own chief contributor and Curriculum Leader Alan Holligan.

“It was a real honour to be asked to contribute once again to Art Worlds annual reveiw graduating fine art talent. The opportunity to see, consider and comment on so much work from the colleges our students aspire too provides valuable insight into current concerns of emerging artists and the various schools they are graduating from. The quality of the work was very high this year throughout all the shows I visited and I am encouraged by the high standards and breadth of practice.”

Art World magazine is available from all major stockist of Contemporay and Fine Art periodicals. Suscribe on line at:

http://www.artworldmagazine.com.au/

 

 

ContemporaryArtETC…to report on Degree Shows for Art World Magazine

After a successful 2008 round up ContemporaryArtETC… will once again be adorning the Deerstalker and heading for the richest of hunting grounds to report on this years emerging talent for Art World Magazine.

This year we are casting our gaze a little further by adding Newcastle, where we are today and Dundee, covered last week, to our hit list.

In the next 7 days we will visit:

Newcastle University, Cumbria University, Edinburgh College of Art, Glasgow School of Art, Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen and Glasgow School of Art.

ContemporaryArtETC… Diploma Show at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop.

ContemporaryArtETC… are delighted to present images from the current HN Diploma Show, XX – Collective.

XX – Collective, the first ever Contemporary Art Higher National Diploma Exhibition is on now at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop and features drawing, painting, sculpture, video, photography and performance.

Private View of XX – Collective at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop Tonight

ContemporaryArtETC.com in association with Edinburgh’s Telford College are delighted to announce the opening of XX – Collective at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop this evening.

XX – Collective is the first ever HND Contemporary Art Practice Grad Show anywhere in the world and is the culmination of the collective efforts of the qualification development team, teaching staff and most importantly students over the past 4 years.

The exhibition features , painting, video, sculpture, drawing and performance by 9 artists each of whom present their unique view of the world.

Opening at 6pm this evening the exhibition will run daily from 10 – 6 until Wednesday the 3rd June

More than just 1 Degree of success:

Contemporary Art Practice students inundated with offers:

At the time of publication the 2009 UCAS stats for HND Contemporary Art Practice Year 2 candidates at Edinburgh’s Telford College are as follows:

• 100% received 1 or more HE Degree offer.
• 78% received 2 or more HE Degree offers.
• 33% received 3 or more HE Degree offers.
• 90% received offers @ SCQF Level 9 (equivalent to entry level 3 in Scotland)
• 67% received offers @ SCQF Level 8 (equivalent to entry level 2 in Scotland)

Every year thousands of Art & Design students from hundreds of schools and FE colleges throughout the country apply for Fine Art and Design degree courses in the UK. Competitions for places is extremely high; Edinburgh College of Art for example receives more applications than Oxford and Cambridge. Successfully gaining a place on these courses is a significant achievement for any applicant.

Although such achievements are predominantly down to the hard work, dedication and creative output of the applicants themselves there can be no doubt that the influence of a highly creative, well resourced and supportive art dept along with the input of highly qualified and professional artists / lecturers can have a significant and lasting influence on the future success of students whether they choose to go on to Higher Education or directly into the Creative Industries.

The HND in Contemporary Art Practice at Edinburgh’s Telford College has a growing reputation as one of the most successful courses in the country. Our progression rates continue to be amongst the highest in the FE sector.

This year places have been offered on the following courses:

Edinburgh College of Art:

• BA(hons) Intermedia
• BA(hons) Painting
• BA(hons) Sculpture

Glasgow School of Art:

• BA(hons) Sculpture and Environmental Art

University of Cumbria:

• BA(hons) Fine Art

University of Newcastle:

• BA(hons) Fine Art

If you would like to study on one of the most innovative and successful Fine Art HND courses in the UK then why not APPLY NOW.